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I love all this anti Bush talk about a story line that was set in place before the man was ever in office. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] The influence on George Lucas when he conceived it was the Vietnam War. He doesn't deny there are parallels between that war and Iraq, but the theme of the loss of freedom was already in place before EP I came out.
It is a common them to discuss in times of war -- giving up liberty for safety. It's been a common theme since -- well, since liberty, government, and war were invented. It's not Lucas's fault that a war started just in time to make his story line relevant. As for lines like Padme's "and this is how democracy falls" -- that is the theme, not a slam on Bush. It's not Lucas's fault that if given the choice between leaving a theme unsaid and cramming it in the poorly-written dialogue, he will ALWAYS choose the later.
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